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Retreats & Offsites – IRL Event Strategy to Support Distributed Teams

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At Doist, everyone has the opportunity to meet with teammates in real life twice a year: once for a company-wide retreat of our ~100 employees and once for a mini-retreat with their immediate team. As I was designing our retreat strategy, I wanted to answer this question definitively: how do you create an agenda that maximizes the return on our in-person time together?

In this talk we’ll cover the importance of team retreats, policies, budgeting, location-picking, communication, the 20/30/50 rule, and how to measure success.

If we’re going to ask people to travel across the world for a week and leave their personal lives behind, we want it to be convenient, enjoyable, and fulfilling for them – hopefully these structures are helping on that front.

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Head of Operations

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About

Chase Warrington is the Head of Operations at Doist, a pioneer of distributed work that specializes in productivity software. Doist created the award-winning task management app Todoist, and Twist, the first communication app designed for async workflows. Collectively, Doist supports 30 million people globally to stay organized and productive.

Chase is responsible for developing and executing Doist’s remote work strategy, co-located events, and advocating for the future of work on behalf of the company. His work has led him to be recognized as a leader in the 2022 Remote Influencer Report and a 2022 LinkedIn Top Voice for Remote Work. He has worked remotely for over 12 years, as one of Doist’s 100+ employees in 35 countries. He is a regular Forbes contributor, instructor, and consultant to many of the leading remote work organizations and publications, as well as the host of his own podcast, About Abroad.

Chase is from the US, but is currently living in Spain. He is fluent in English and conversational in Spanish.

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